Prague
Your career at Deutsche Börse Group
About the Role
We are looking for a motivated and quality-driven QA Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will work closely with software engineers, functional analysts, and product stakeholders to ensure the delivery of reliable, high-quality software solutions. You will play a key role in designing, automating, and executing tests across the software development lifecycle while contributing to the continuous improvement of our quality assurance practices and testing strategy.
Your Responsibilities
- Collaborate with software engineers, functional analysts, and product teams to understand new features, refine requirements, and define meaningful test scenarios.
- Design, develop, execute, and maintain integration, end-to-end (E2E), regression, and exploratory tests to ensure software quality and reliability.
- Develop new automated test cases and continuously improve and maintain existing test suites.
- Design and execute functional test cases, both manual and automated.
- Ensure compliance with established product testing standards, quality requirements, and best practices.
- Participate in code reviews with a focus on testability, maintainability, and overall product quality.
- Ensure test coverage aligns with business-critical workflows, system integrations, and trading scenarios.
- Validate integrations between services, APIs, messaging systems, and external components.
- Conduct exploratory testing to uncover edge cases, usability concerns, and potential system risks.
- Analyze test results, identify defects, support root cause analysis, and collaborate with software engineers on resolution.
- Document testing activities, test results, and quality metrics in a clear and structured manner.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of testing processes, tools, frameworks, and automation practices.
- Collaborate with development teams to integrate testing into CI pipelines and ensure rapid feedback on software changes.
- Contribute to the definition, implementation, and evolution of the overall testing strategy.
Your Profile
- Strong understanding of software testing principles, methodologies, and Agile software development practices.
- Passion for software quality, ownership, and continuous learning.
- Experience designing and executing tests at different levels, including integration, end-to-end (E2E), regression, and exploratory testing.
- Ability to review, understand, and contribute to automated tests implemented in Java or Kotlin.
- Experience with test automation tools and frameworks.
- Experience using Git for source code version control and collaboration within software development teams.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to understand complex systems and identify risks or gaps.
- Familiarity with CI pipelines and modern software development workflows.
- Ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams and collaborate closely with software engineers, functional analysts, and product stakeholders.
- Excellent communication skills and a proactive mindset.
Would Be an Advantage
- Experience with tools and technologies such as GitHub, Docker, and Jenkins.
- Knowledge of event-driven architectures and messaging systems such as RabbitMQ.
- Experience with build and dependency management tools such as Gradle or Maven.
- Experience working with trading platforms, energy markets, or other business-critical transaction systems.
Why Deutsche Börse Group?
We are committed to providing a work environment where everyone feels welcome and can reach their full potential. Our standards go far beyond simply matching candidates with the right position.
Mobility
We enable you to move freely with our job tickets, job (e-)bikes and free parking opportunities.
Work environment
Collaboration, communication, or deep focus – in our modern office buildings you will find the perfect work environment. Free drinks and food and meal allowances included.
Health and wellbeing
We care for your health and wellbeing and besides various health promotion measures we offer you a group accident insurance and additional insurance offers at discounted rates.
Financial stability
We provide financial stability by offering attractive salaries, company pension schemes, participation in our Group Share Plan, as well as bonuses, subsidies and discounts.
Hybrid work
Collaborate and exchange on-site or work remotely several days a week in line with business needs and local regulations. Our hybrid working model combines the best of both worlds.
Flexible working hours
We want your job to fit your life situation and offer flexible working time models, childcare allowance, or the possibility to study alongside your job.
Internationality
Our market infrastructures are globally connected. Working with us means collaborating with like-minded colleagues across over 60 locations from more than 100 nations.
Development
We promote individual development by offering internal development programmes, mentoring, further education and training budgets.